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A topos (plural topoi or toposes) is a category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space. Topos theory consists of the study of Grothendieck topoi (originated from Geometry) and more general notion of Elementary topoi .

It's known that for sheaves with values in modules, the inverse image sheaf functor $j^\ast$ for $j:U\subset X$ an inclusion of an open set has a left adjoint which is extension by zero.
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Define an (elementary) topos to be a cartesian closed category with all finite limits and subobject classifiers. I'm looking for a proof of the fact that a topos also has all finite colimits.
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I've heard that someone's thought up a way of using category theory, involving something called topoi, as a foundation for mathematics. If this is true then are there any texts which explain such a ...

An infinitesimal object $D$ in a Cartesian closed category $\mathsf{C}$ is one for which the internal Hom functor $$(-)^D: \mathsf{C} \to \mathsf{C}$$ has a right adjoint.
I am wondering what is the ...

Is the category Rel of sets and relations a topos?
I've done a few Google searches about this question but I haven't found any answers either way. And I can't recall any answers either way in any of ...

It is well known that a group object in Grp is necessarily abelian. This can be understood as "internalization loses information". Indeed, if one was to study group theory by looking at group objects ...

This is Fact 1.4 in Tom Leinster's informal introduction to topos theory. It states the following: if there exists a mono $t:T \hookrightarrow \Omega$ that classifies the monos in our category, in the ...

We are given a site $(C, J)$ for a small category $C$ and a Grothendieck topology $J$. If $F\in Sh(C, J)$, we take the natural topology $J_F$ on its category of elements $el(F)$ induced by $J$. I am ...

Let $R$ be the category of finitely presented commutative rings (but I don't know how necessary the hypothesis of finite presentation is for my question). Let $Set^R=Fun(R, Set)$ be the category of ...

The category of modules over a ring can be viewed as an enriched version of an action of a monoid on a set (see nLab entry). Moreover, if $R$ is a commutative ring, the category of modules over it is ...

The h-topology introduced by Voevodsky on the category $Sch/K$ of separated schemes of finite type over a field $K$ is the Grothendieck topology associated with the pretopology whose coverings are of ...

Question. Let $M$ be a model of enough set theory. Then we can form a category $\mathbf{Set}_M$ whose objects are the elements of $M$ and whose morphisms are the functions in $M$. To what extent is ...

Consider the following presheaf on the big etale site of smooth schemes over a field $k$: to every smooth $k$-scheme $U$, associate $$F(U):= \{f: U \to \mathbb A^1_k ~|~ \text{$f$ factors through the ...

Let $\mathcal{E}$ be an elementary topos with subobject classifier $\Omega$ and let $j\colon \Omega\to\Omega$ be a Lawvere-Tierney topology on it. Assume that, for an object $C$ of $\mathcal{E}$, each ...

Is there any place where I can read about $2$-categories? I am looking for a proper treatment - there is a section in Borceux's Handbook of Categorical Algebra, but it only sketches some parts of the ...